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Miraculous flower essence works directly on self-awareness; 4 drops under the tongue will cure your procrastinating, turn you into a model of healthy vigor and drive.

The Carolingian emperor Charlemagne new its qualities. So did Hildegard von ingen, Madame Restell, and the herbalist Steve Horne.

Ask President Henry Dunster of Harvard, whose corpse it helped to preserve.

By Amanda Fortini

Two summers ago, my neighbor in Las Vegas — an eloquent and refined man with one of the sharpest minds (and tongues) of anyone I know, a Wildean wit — admitted to me that he was depressed, and that his doldrums took the form of playing video games. If Oscar Wilde himself had materialized and told me he was a big fan of Grand Theft Auto, I could not have been more surprised. My neighbor is impressively well read, a person who recaps Thackeray novels for me as he finishes them, and with whom I discussed Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady over Zoom during the most stultifying months of the pandemic. He has serious literary aspirations, often waking at the crack of dawn to write before opening the small business he owns with his husband. And somehow, with all this talent, intelligence, and promise, he was sitting around wasting time… playing video games. Reader, forgive me: I am open-minded about many subjects, but when it comes to video games, I take a dim view. Luckily, so does my …

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The Battle of Point Reyes

Kicking old-school ranchers off their land to make Silicon Valley vegans happy

Injecting elk with birth control by helicopter

How do you tell the good cows from the bad cows?

By Chris Bray

Point Reyes is a 70,000-acre protrusion that sticks out of California into the Pacific Ocean, about an hour north of San Francisco. The Point Reyes National Seashore comprises 65,000 acres of that piece of land, as a unit of the National Park Service that currently makes no sense to anyone. To my eye, it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world, and I’ve been visiting it since I was a child. It calls to me. Archaeological evidence suggests that Point Reyes was a kind of Miwok Santa Monica for thousands of years, a pleasant and densely populated oceanfront neighborhood. Then came the Franciscans, who brought the first few cows. In the 1830s, Mexican land grants turned the Point into ranchland. In the 1850s, litigation over those grants delivered most of the Point into the hands of a San Francisco law firm — Shafter, Shafter, Park, and Heydenfeldt. Shafter and Shafter then created a dairy district in which ranches were designated by letters of the alphabet. More than a century …

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